<p>An Iowa man has been arrested on first-degree rape charges, according to a press release from the Gadsden Police Department.</p><p>Anthony Joseph Poppen, 27, of Ames, Iowa, was charged Tuesday.</p><p>He already was in the Etowah County Detention Center on investigative hold when the warrant was served.</p><p>The arrest is in connection with an incident that occurred Nov. 11. A 26-year-old female told police she left a local lounge with three men who took her to a local motel and raped her.</p><p>The case remains under investigation.</p>